Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Farmers’ Market on Broadway will receive a portable Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on-site thanks to a grant from AARP. AARP announced the market has been selected to ...

Clever design, close attention to human safety issues, and a top man-machine interface make the Philips HeartStart portable home defibrillator one of the hottest medical electronics devices on the ...

Avive Solutions has developed a lightweight, portable defibrillator and the Bay Area startup has some fresh cash. Here's what we know. A medical device startup based in Brisbane is raising millions in ...

Every year 250,000 people die from cardiac arrest. If you live in Wake County, your chances of surviving are better than most. It is not a matter of new techniques or technology. In fact, common ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- When rising prep football star Ryan Boslet suddenly went into cardiac arrest during a workout in his school gym, a portable defibrillator was only the length of a basketball court ...

Belfast, Northern Ireland - Prof J Frank Pantridge, the Irish cardiologist who developed the first portable defibrillator, died on December 26 at the age of 88. Pantridge was widely regarded as the ...

The Department of Public Safety purchased two automated external defibrillators to dispatch in their police cruisers two months ago as part of an ongoing initiative to prepare officers for a broad ...